Wireless communications and networking
technologies conference to be held April 1 4, 2012 in Paris,
France

New York, NY (December 21, 2011) The IEEE
Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) has
initiated the registration process for its annual event to be held
April 1 – 4 at the Palais des Congrès
– Porte Maillot in Paris, France. Devoted to the entire
range of wireless communications and networking technologies, IEEE
WCNC 2012 will include 620 technical papers delivered throughout
four tracks, nine tutorials, seven workshops, four keynotes and
eight business panels exploring topics ranging from the latest
advances in digital cellular, PCS, multimedia and wireless
networking technologies to channel modeling, radio resource
management and emerging mobile applications.

“The legendary scenic and artistic
beauty of Paris will offer a spectacular backdrop for IEEE WCNC
2012,” said Professor Hikmet Sari, the
conference’s General Chair. “It will also
supply a magnificent atmosphere for profiling the latest visionary
research, services and applications that are actively reshaping
global businesses, entertainment and social practices.

Monday, April 2 will then mark the start of the
conference’s executive and technical program highlighted
by the conference’s keynote schedule. Included will be
the addresses of Gee Rittenhouse, Vice President of Bell Labs
Research, and Siavash Alamouti, Group R&D Director of Vodafone.
Responsible for overseeing all Bell Labs research centers and the
research activities for Alcatel-Lucent, Rittenhouse is actively
engaged in green technology research, creating innovations that
promote environmental sustainability and improving the energy
efficiency of ICT networks by a factor of 1000 from current levels.
Formerly an Intel Fellow and the CTO of Mobile Wireless Group at
Intel Corp., Alamouti is best known for the invention of the
Alamouti space–time block code, a 2 transmit antenna
space-time block code and has been adopted for use in standards
worldwide.

On the following morning, the keynote will renew
with the addresses of Andrea Goldsmith, Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Stanford University, and Thomas Sälzer,
Director of R&D at Huawei Technologies France. Dr.
Sälzer is currently responsible for research and
standardization activities of mobile radio systems such as HSPA and
LTE, while Dr. Goldsmith currently serves on the Steering Committee
for the Transactions on Wireless Communications and editor for the
Journal on Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information
Theory and in Networks. She is also the author of
“Wireless Communications'” and co-author of
“MIMO Wireless Communications.”

Also beginning on Monday and running through
Wednesday will be the presentation of eight executive panels
highlighting the experiences and visionary insights of senior
executives from Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson,
Huawei, NEC, France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, Telefonica, Britsh
Telecom, Telekom Austria, Clearwire and Packet One, among others.
Some of the many areas addressed will be “Will the
Internet of the future be a Wireless Internet?”
“Mobile Communication Systems for Vertical Industry
Sectors,” “Small Cells: A Smart Way towards
Future Mobile Broadband,” “The Role of Shared
Use in Solving the (Projected) Spectrum Crunch” and
“Facing the Growth of Mobile Broadband: The Spectrum
Dilemma.”

Still under development and soon to be announced
is IEEE WCNC 2012’s technical program, which will consist
of 620 original research papers presented across 90 oral sessions
and 25 individual poster sessions. Selected after a rigorous review
of more than 1,400 original submissions received from 72 countries,
these papers will cover the next wave of research and breakthroughs
within the wireless communications and networking field.

For more information on IEEE WCNC 2012,
including registration and patronage details as well as ongoing
conference updates, please contact Heather Ann Sweeney of IEEE
ComSoc at h.sweeney@comsoc.org or visit www.ieee-wcnc.org/2012.
All visitors to the IEEE WCNC 2012 website are also invited to
reach out to friends and colleagues through the
conference’s Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn pages.